ID 1380960
Lot 283 | WOLFGANG TILLMANS (B. 1968)
Estimate value
£ 5 000 – 7 000
me in the shower
signed, titled, numbered and dated 'me in the shower ph 9 90 pr WT 10 95 Wolfgang Tillmans 8/10 + 1' (on the reverse)
chromogenic print
image: 14 x 9 ¼in. (35.5 x 23.6cm.)
sheet: 16 x 12in. (40.6 x 30.5cm.)
Photographed in 1990 and printed in 1995, this work is number eight from an edition of ten plus one artist's proof
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner.
Literature
W. Tillmans (ed.), Wolfgang Tillmans: Burg, Cologne 1998 (illustrated in colour, p. 26).
B. Riemschneider (ed.), Wolfgang Tillmans, Cologne 2002 (illustrated in colour, p. 176).
J. Verwoert, P. Halley, et al., Wolfgang Tillmans, London 2002, p. 160 (illustrated in colour, p. 125).
J. Verwoert, P. Halley, et al., Wolfgang Tillmans, London 2014, p. 236 (illustrated in colour, p. 12).
Exhibited
Zurich, Kunsthalle Zürich, Wolfgang Tillmans, 1995 (another version exhibited, illustrated, unpaged).
London, Tate Britain, Wolfgang Tillmans: if one thing matters, everything matters, 2003, no. 1990-015 (another version exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 30).
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Taschen Collection, 2004-2005, pp. 238 and 253 (another version illustrated in colour, pp. 237 and 241).
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Wolfgang Tillmans To look without fear, 2022-2023, pp. 201 and 314 (another version illustrated in colour, p. 203; installation view of another version at Museum of Modern Art in 1997 illustrated in colour p. 49). This exhibition later travelled to Ontario, Art Gallery of Ontario and San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Further Details
Other versions are in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, New York and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
| Artist: | Wolfgang Tillmans (1968) |
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| Applied technique: | Chromogenic colour-print |
| Art style: | Contemporary art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Photography |
| Artist: | Wolfgang Tillmans (1968) |
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| Applied technique: | Chromogenic colour-print |
| Art style: | Contemporary art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Photography |
| Address of auction |
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